Rika Fujimaru, who had lost the opportunity to "turn this conflict into an artistic aesthetic exam for the Midnight Lord", was speechless and then silently turned her gaze to the forbidden army on the side.

The Forbidden Army is a wonderful species. According to the Emperor, they are a little more emotionally intelligent by design than the Astarte average – the bad news is that they do know how to read the atmosphere, but not much, and generally don't like to use their own emotional intelligence; The good news is that the situation in front of Rika Fujimaru is not a "normal situation".

Fujimaru Rika didn't want to know at all how many people in this forbidden army squad were using her as an imperial meal replacement. But in short, after she threw a disapproving look, the two forbidden soldiers present naturally began to pack their things and prepare to leave.

In the short time that Jin Cancan really left, Fujimaru Rika ordered a hamburger steak set for herself. And Inquisitor Hastings, after being interrupted by Sevita like this, although his momentum plummeted, he still tried to make a useless struggle:

"I still don't think that's a good thing in the long run." He said this, deliberately emphasizing his official authority with a complex and awkward grammar, "anything that may lead to corruption and depravity—"

"It is human nature to chase beauty, Mr. Inquisitor, and it is innocent in itself." Fujimaru Rika sighed and retorted, "Even if it's an inquisitor, I don't advise—no, just because I'm an inquisitor, I don't recommend that the client adopt that ascetic-like and boring lifestyle. Proper relaxation and recreation are necessary. ”

Inquisitor Hastings weighed it for a moment, and finally chose to respond to this topic, which had been crooked by Fujimaru Rika:

“…… This may be the case, but is human nature really 'sinless'? He sat back in his chair and began to face the remaining half of the meal in front of him again, "I don't deny that human beings are born with a desire to chase beauty, but you can't be unaware that in this chaotic universe, it is a chaotic enemy who holds 'beauty' and 'desire' tightly in the palm of your hand. ”

"You also know that the truth is not as absolute as you claim." Rika Fujimaru said, "The Lord of Pleasure does hold the power in this universe, but the power of God is one thing, and the concept of the connection is another. The concept of 'beauty' was not born by the evil gods of subspace, but by 'people (observers)'. It has nothing to do with the gods who 'control' beauty, and human beings themselves will naturally feel beauty. ”

Quite well, the topic has become an incomprehensible and vexing heretical debate. Sevita immediately decided that the wind was tight, but it was still a little late to prepare to escape:

"Perhaps, but even the Lord of Mankind does not think that the sensibility to beauty is necessary." Hastings immediately nodded Sevita, who had not yet successfully left, with a fork, "There is a living example in front of us—if he really thinks this is important, why did he deliberately strip away this part of the function when he created Astarte with biological alchemy?" ”

Sevita, who had only turned halfway around, turned back and grinned menacingly at the Inquisitor: "That's a bit biased. Why don't you take the example of my amiable and venerable cousins of the Holy Blood Angels? ”

With a gloomy expression, Hastings looked up again in the direction of Sevita. Seeing that the second round of quarrel was about to start, Fujimaru Rika's voice interjected just right: "Even if the emperor did want to strip Astarte of this function, there are as many examples as the number of Ganges sand to prove that he did not succeed. Savitarion simply has no ability to appreciate, it's his own problem. ”

"Hey—"

The midnight lord's company commander immediately made a protest sound, but Fujimaru Ritsuka ignored him, just took the tablet that he hadn't had time to put down in his hand again, and called up a page from it with a very simple operation, and showed it to everyone present:

"—Combined with a lot of experience in the past, I guess that as long as he sees enough 'beautiful' things, his pitiful appreciation ability can be activated."

Sevita was unhappy with this statement, but he didn't have time to express it. In protest, he naturally turned his head in the direction where Rika Fujimaru was, and his gaze naturally crashed into the screen of the tablet that the latter had flipped to him in time, and—

- He was confused.

There was no doubt that the screen was showing a video recording of a complete stranger to Sevita. Although it is just a dull and static picture, it does not prevent him from roughly concluding that "it is a mortal male" through the information about the skeletal structure and body structure conveyed by the picture in an instant. This was nothing surprising - but somehow he couldn't take his eyes off it.

It wasn't comparable at all, but it reminded him of the feeling he had when he first met his genetic father. In the third second, he realized that he might be a little out of shape, but at this moment, it didn't seem to be very important. He didn't hate the feeling, and he didn't have the slightest idea of interrupting it for a trivial matter - it wasn't until the fifth second he froze in place that Rika Fujimaru extinguished the development of the tablet screen that he woke up suddenly.

What evil law? Sevita thought to herself for a moment.

Confident that "the surrounding environment is absolutely safe", the commander of the Midnight Lord's company, who has finally regained his ability to think normally, first assumed a conversational defensive posture. In an instant, he was ready to immediately scold anyone who dared to laugh at him for his reaction, but the next second, he realized that no one was ready to try to do so.

The person who started it all, Rika Fujimaru, of course, knew what could happen, and of course she didn't have to; And the two people who were also present, or were the only ones left in the cafeteria, Judge Hastings and Kelya, obviously had not recovered from the impact of "beauty" a few seconds ago.

"Gao Changgong." After another two seconds, Rika Fujimaru uttered three clear but unfamiliar syllables, "Or 'Lanling King'." A general who is famous for his beauty and martial prowess, because his appearance is so beautiful, this person must wear a mask every day in order to live normally in the crowd without causing a commotion. Although there is more than one 'beautiful man', 'beautiful woman', or even 'god of beauty' who has left a record in Chaldea, when I think of a 'beautiful man', my first reaction is him. By the way, the ID photo on Lingji's portrait can reflect less than half the lethality of himself. ”

Inquisitor Hastings opened his mouth, but it took two seconds before he managed to make a sound through his vocal cords. It did make him look very stupid, but at least this time, Sevita, who had a close relationship, didn't launch a verbal attack on this.

“…… It's too ......" Kylia had no doubt that the word the Inquisitor was about to stop saying was "blasphemy," but he swallowed half of his unspoken accusations," ...... With such a perfect appearance, is there really no great enemy to get in the way? ”

"I believe that the hand of the Lord of Pleasure is not yet so long, and that not all the concepts related to 'beauty' in the world will have the shadow of that One." Fujimaru Rika said calmly, "Not to mention the matter of King Lanling, you have also seen Mr. Robert's real person many times with your own eyes, haven't you?" ”

Hastings began to speak again, and this time he did not succeed in saying anything.

This has nothing to do with the identity and position of the emperor or the regent of the empire, or the question of "political correctness", and it is impossible for anyone who has met the regent of the empire himself not to admit that Robert Kiliman is indeed "beautiful". It is an indescribable kind of shocking beauty that no sculpture, painting, or even video record can 100% reproduce, and it is impossible for anyone who has seen the original body not to be impressed.

Hastings opened his mouth to say how much he wished that the other party would change the expression that was more in line with the original itself, such as "majestic", "heroic", or "heroic", and so on—but then, like a hopelessly illiterate man, he realized that all the words he had come up with in a moment would eventually be confined to the concept of "beauty" in terms of inclusiveness and generalization.

But Sevita turned her head again with a bit of indignation: "I don't think—"

"—Conrad Coetze."

Rika Fujimaru, who had expected this, only lightly threw out the name of his genetic father, and successfully blocked all the unspoken sharp comments of Sevita, "In the final analysis, all original bodies are 'beautiful', but they differ in the degree to which 'beauty' can be embodied because of inevitable individual differences." From the point of view of 'embodying and being able to give beauty,' it is not unreasonable to think of the emperor as a god of beauty. ”

All of the primordial bodies carry a kind of psychic or, in the eyes of Fujimaru Ritsuka, a beauty caused by magic. Contrary to the mainstream perception in the early years of the Empire that the Emperor designed the Primordial to be so perfect that they could better control the Legion, after studying in detail and reconstructing the physical shell of a Primordial by herself, she was more inclined to think that this was a benign "side effect" that did not require special treatment:

"Introducing the movement of celestial bodies into the human body can lead to mystical beauty" seems to be common knowledge among magicians, but as a third-rate magician, Rika Fujimaru only has such a superficial understanding of this matter under the modern magic literacy education of Ermelo II. She didn't know much about the principle of this, and the only thing she knew for sure was that when the Emperor made the Primordial Body, he added something to the "Essence" part of each of them that reflected the movement of the celestial bodies.

"But," Kelya, who was holding the juice cup, asked slowly, "Among the gods of the subspace, the first to occupy the power of 'beauty' is the Lord of Pleasure, right?" Such power can be ...... I don't know how to say it's appropriate, 'shared'? ”

"In this regard...... It is better to say that there is a unique beauty god, and the problem is big. Fujimaru Rika thought for a moment and replied, "Without mentioning the question that is too far away from us, such as the struggle for power between gods, if there is a god who wants to monopolize the concept of 'beauty', then he must first make himself a 'perfect' being, and as we all know, 'perfection' is a concept that can be pursued but can never be pursued." ”

She also said similar things to Forgrim in the illusion, but unfortunately judging from the final result, the other party obviously didn't listen to it - or because the things in the illusion had to be based on the framework that had happened in reality as a template, it was useless for him to listen to it.

She had wanted to ask what the correct answer was, but it didn't make sense. Rika Fujimaru had many opportunities to confirm the issue with the emperor, but she eventually gave up.

For no particular reason, she just didn't want to hear about the result she didn't really like, that's all.

Miwoo (Abrupt Update)

Regent, an ordinary handsome guy in the hearts of the Octrama (ordinary surgeon). Don't remind me what the hell GW made the head sculpture of the original body, anyway, if you just look at the text, the original body is a handsome guy!

Golda's discussion of the moon style of beauty comes mainly from the case of the double Maung Taizeluma in the Book of Events of the Second Dynasty. Thank you, Makoto Mita. And the organic combination of the moon-style discourse and the hammer is my nonsense (serenity).

(End of chapter)